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Based on historical people and real events, Arthur Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful parable about McCarthyism. Introduction by Christopher Bigsby

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura... (more)

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. This edition, which includes a new foreword by Harold Bloom, coincides with a new production of the play starring Brian Dennehy, which opens in Chicago in January 2002 and in New York... (more)

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

The tragedy of a typical American--a salesman who at the age of sixty-three is faced with what he cannot face; defeat and disillusionment.

A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays 'Sweet Bird of Youth';'The Glass Menagerie

A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays 'Sweet Bird of Youth';'The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

"A Streetcar Named Desire" is one of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in the character of Blanche DuBois, the haggard and fragile southern beauty whose pathetic last grasp at happiness is cruelly destroyed. It shot Marlon Brando to fame in the role of Stanley Kowalski, a sweat-shirted barbarian, the crudely sensual brother-in-law who precipitated Blanche's tragedy. Produced... (more)

Timebends: A Life

by Arthur Miller

Telling his life story with humor and passion--displaying throughout the largeness of spirit that has made him one of the most admired writers this country has ever produced--Miller recalls his boyhood, his education, the formation of his political outlook, his career successes and failures, and the remarkable variety of people, both obscure and famous, in his life.

Miss Julie

by August Strindberg, William-Alan Landes

As all the great dramatists since the Greek tragedians have known, class and gender roles continue to remain the two fundamental determinants of the social fabric of any culture - even one, like our own, in which the boundaries of those identities have become fluid, situational, and transitory. David French's adaptation of August Strindberg's disturbing and enduring drama of the transgressive affair between the... (more)

Fences

by August Wilson

A Pulitzer Prize winner. Garbage collector Troy Maxson clashes with his son over an athletic scholarship.

The Emperor Jones (Dover Thrift Editions)

The Emperor Jones (Dover Thrift Editions)

by William-Alan Landes

Powerful drama, rapidly shifting scenes describe fall of Brutus Jones, the self-proclaimed, plundering monarch of a West Indian island, whose flight into the jungle from rebellious subjects is plagued by ghosts and visions. Bold, expressionistic work established O’Neill as one of America’s most important dramatists.

The Portable Arthur Miller (Penguin Classics)Arthur; Bigsby, Christopher; Clurman, Harold Miller

The Portable Arthur Miller (Penguin Classics)

by Arthur; Bigsby, Christopher; Clurman, Harold Miller

RUMORS A FARCENeil Simon

RUMORS A FARCE

by Neil Simon

Ah, Wilderness

by Eugene O'Neill

Comedy in four acts by Eugene O'neill, published and first performed in 1933. Perhaps the most atypical of the author's works, the play presents a sentimental tale of youthful indiscretion in a turn-of-the-century New England town. Richard, adolescent son of the local newspaper publisher, Nat Miller, exhibits the wayward tendencies of his maternal uncle, Sid Davis. Forbidden to court the neighbor girl, Muriel, by... (more)

Rose Tattoo

by Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire (Heinemann Plays)

A Streetcar Named Desire (Heinemann Plays)

by Tennessee Williams

The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This play depicts the conflict between a fading Southern belle and the brash lower-class society of her sister's family.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

by Edward Albee

Summer and Smoke.

by Tennessee Williams

A Raisin in the Sun (Vintage)

by Lorraine Hansberry

When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."--The New York Times.

Arthur Miller: His Life and Work

by Martin Gottfried

Arthur Miller has been delivering powerful drama to the stage for decades with such masterpieces as Death of a Salesman , The Crucible , and A View from the Bridge . But, remarkably, no one has yet told the full story of Miller's own extraordinary life-a rich life, much of it shrouded from public view. To achieve this groundbreaking portrait of the artist and the man, the award-winning drama critic and... (more)

Death of a salesman;: Certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem

Death of a salesman;: Certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem

by Arthur Miller

A Delicate Balance: a Play

by Edward Albee

Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play--winner of the 1996 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play--is now available in a trade paperback edition. A dark comedy about unfulfilled lives, broken promises, and family jealousies, A Delicate Balance has just been revived to triumphant acclaim at Lincoln Center's Plymouth Theatre in New York City.

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